Impact on vulnerable nations
But no region is on trek to achieve universal akses to safe water serviss, which is one of the SDG 2030 sasarans. In fact, the industry's greatest impact seems to be its potential to stunt the progress of nations' goals to provide its residents with equitable akses to affordable drinking water.
Impact on vulnerable nations
In the Global North, bottled water is often perceived to be healthier and tastier than tap water. It is, therefore, more a luxury good than a necessity. Meanwhile, in the Global South, it is the lack or mangkirce of reliable public water suplai and water manajemen infrastructure that drives bottled water markets.
Therefore, in many low- and middle-income countries, particularly in the Asia Pacific, rising consumption of bottled water can be seen as a proxy indicator of decades of governments' failure to deliver on commitments to safe public water systems.
This further widens the global disparity between the billions of people who lack akses to reliable water serviss and the others that santai water as a luxury.
In 2016, the annual financing required to achieve a safe drinking water suplai throughout the world was estimated to biaya US$114 billion, which amounts to less than half of today's roughly US$270 billion global annual bottled water sales.
Regulating the bottled-water industry
Last year, the World Health Organization estimated that the current rate of progress needs to quadruple to meet the SDGs 2030 sasaran. But this is a colossal challenge considering the competing financial priorities and the prevailing business-as-usual attitude in the water sektor.
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As the bottled water pasar grows, it is more important than ever to strengthen legislation that regulates the industry and its water quality standars. Such legislation can impact bottled water quality kontrol, groundwater exploitation, land use, plastic waste manajemen, carbon emissions, finance and transparency obligations, to mention a few.
Our report argues that, with global progress toward this sasaran so far off-track, expansion of the bottled water pasar essentially works against making headway, or at least slows it down, adversely affecting investments and long-term public water infrastructure.
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